0 (of living things, especially people) unable to continue living for ever; having to die:
1 an ordinary person, rather than a god or a special, important, or powerful person:
2 (of living things, esp. people) unable to continue living forever; having to die:
Even in the era of the word processor, authorial output of this quantity and quality is something to which we lesser mortals can only aspire.
His blood, normally red, is imaged as gold, more precious than an ordinary mortal's because he is the king, even though dead.
The latter is extremely familiar to ordinary mortals, who come into contact with it, exploit it or become its victims, on an everyday basis.
In ancient times, leaders of communities had the status of heroes and were elevated above the ordinary, being regarded as more than mere mortals.
We may slip in that fatal perspective of recognizing culture as our construct, arbitrary, conventional, made by mortals.
Here we have to distinguish between the police and ordinary mortals.
Maybe this is true also, to some extent, of mortals with interesting births.
The mortals that experience the extraordinary bitter sting of love, are removed from civilization through death or loss of human form.
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